Trainline.com usability: fail

My second attempt at buying a train ticket from the trainline today appears to have hit the buffers. I'm in the middle of the transaction, what do I do now? The same thing as the first attempt, wait an hour or so to see if a confirmation email comes through.

Definite fail.

Omniplan Breakthrough

I first used a Mac in 1992 in the Glasgow University Aeronautical Engineering Department computer suite. We used 'spreadsheets' and 'wordprocessor' programmes on a Mac that looked like this beauty.

But for the last 15 years or so I've been a PC user. I occasionally used macs for editing and encoding but that's about it.

Writing docs, spreadsheets, presentations, that was all done on PCs. Not that I love PCs especially, (I definitely despise Word) it's just that my working life involved offices and that usually means PCs.

Now however I'm using a MacBook Pro quite a lot and I do like it very much indeed. OmniPlan, the microsoft project equivalent, has been doing my nut in though. This is almost entirely because you have to schedule tasks by date AND hour, which seems crazy to me.

But I have found the way to turn off the crazy hour planning, and it's made such a difference that I had to share it. To turn off hourly scheduling go to the Inspector window, choose Project > Information, Granularity > Daily Scheduling.

Sit back and relax.

If you also hate Microsoft Word as much as I do, then my experiences with Google Docs and Pages have been much more satisfying.

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